[Asterisk-Users] Call Center software opensource or commercial

[Erick Perez]

And what people are using to deploy super servers with astersik?
Itanium with linux? clusters of itanium with linux? or some RISC
processor with some *nix? cause it seems asterisk is only 100%
supported on Linux/Intel
or am i totally wrong?



On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:51:18 -0600, Rich Adamson <radamson at routers.com> wrote:
> > > im my case im looking into 100 seats initially and going up to 1000 at
> > > the end (over a 18 months period).
> > > Looks like we will have to develop *a lot* if we want to use * for it.
> > > Maybe a commercial solution will be better at this time.
> >
> > On Cebit SGI announced a server solution based on Signate software
> > (which is based on Asterisk) that can handle up to 5000 simultaneous
> > calls. I don't know how the marketing drones have cooked up that number
> > but perhaps it's interesting. See
> > http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2005/march/von.html
> 
> According to the marketing blurb, "The benchmark was a standard SIPP test
> and was performed by SGI and Signate. The results compared similarly
> configured systems: an Altix 350 with dual Intel(r) 1.5GHz Itanium 2
> processors/400MHz front side bus/2GB memory compared to a dual 3.0GHz
> Pentium 4 processors/800MHz front side bus/2GB memory. The results
> based on simultaneous calls terminating with comparable voice quality
> were 5,002 for the Altix 350 versus 333 for the PC."
> 
> Its interesting how marketing people leave out the details. The
> statement only addresses terminating calls (which one is left with the
> assumption the test only addressed call setup, not teardown, cdr, etc),
> doesn't mention whether any of those calls could actually carry on a
> conversation, hints that no other application (eg, voicemail) was
> in use simultanously, and most likely assumes the equivalent of
> canreinvite=yes on a local lan segment following call setup.
> 
> However, the stats do seem to support what many of us have already
> experienced, and that is the pci bus limitations with some Intel
> chipsets is far less then reasonable for realtime apps (such as *).
> 
> It would be very interesting to see some real life stats with a
> reasonable mix of * apps including voicemail, transcoding, T1s, etc.
> 
> "If" the box could actually sustain 5,000 real life simultanous calls,
> it could replace a hugh percentage of the US class-5 Central Offices
> (not to mention PBXs). ;)
> 
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